March 2016 College News

Faculty Accolades Susan Weill gave a presentation at the The Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference (JJCHC) at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University. Student Accolades Jenny Buschhorn and the AAF National Student Advertising Competition team will compete at the district 10 convention next month. SJMC graduate student, Sergio Carvajal-Leoni , won a campus-wide award for his thesis, the Graduate College’s Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award in Digital Scholarship. Now he has won again, at the highest level, the regional level, where he is receiving the Digital Scholarship award from the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools. His award, a plaque and $1000 honorarium, was presented at the CSGS Awards Luncheon at the Omni Charlotte Hotel in Charlotte, NC. He attributed his success to both the freedom and guidance his thesis supervisor, Dr. Sandy Rao , provided him. SJMC students joined university students from around the world to participate in the 2016 Global News Relay. The Global News Relay 2016 was streamed live on Friday, March 18 th . Kym Fox was the coordinator for this project with Kelly Kaufhold providing valuable assistance. The University Star also received Student Service Fee funding to participate in this event. SXTXState is a project of the graduate program in the Texas State University School of Journalism & Mass Communication. Five students and five faculty members participated in the program. This is the 9th year that students have previewed and covered the SXSW Interactive conference. The program is headed by Dr. Cindy Royal and can be followed on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. The SXTXState.com project has provided these JOURNALISM & MASS COMMUNICATION Cindy Royal and Graduate Students at South by Southwest (SXSW)